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Recently, Canadian development assistance has become more closely aligned with the achievement of securityrelated foreign policy objectives. The impact of this 'securitization' of Canadian aid has not been examined in terms of its overall effects on other Canadian aid priorities. Are other sectors where Canada has conventionally been a leader internationally - like women and gender - being marginalized because of the increasing instrumentalization of aid as a foreign policy tool? Drawing on various theoretical perspectives on the motivations for aid provision and applying a mixed methods analysis of ODA statistics, recent policy documents, and data collected through interviews with Canadian aid officials, this chapter examines the impact of the securitization of Canadian aid by examining how this trend has affected the overall delivery of ODA by CIDA and other Canadian stakeholders. Results will demonstrate how the securitization of aid reflects the instrumentalization of Canadian aid while at the same time Canada's focus on development priorities more closely related to poverty reduction and humanitarian concerns has been diminishing. Conclusions about the overall impact of the securitization of bilateral development assistance generally will be drawn from the Canadian case, suggesting that the instrumental use of aid as a tool to promote security objectives has a negative impact on the overall effectiveness of development assistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent policy consensus among the OECD/DAC group of development assistance donors around issues of security sector reform has more closely than ever before linked development assistance to issues of national security. This emerging focus on security-sect ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]